![]() ![]() With the average human using 16,000 words a day "100 compared to that is effectively zero" and the wrist counters were a "constant reminder" for women, Dalcher said of the "horror" in that number. "The bare bones of, about women being limited to 100 words a day and about Jean having been a cognitive linguist who was working towards a cure for a certain type of aphasia, were all present." "I wanted more character development instead of just some dark sketch of what the world might look like," she explained. ![]() "I imagined a situation in which a bio-agent had run rampant and effectively left all humans without language."įor the second piece, she expanded that idea to something that induced Wernicke's aphasia, in which an individual can speak, but not in a way that makes sense. "That's where I initially got this idea about taking language away," she told Newsweek. The first was for a contest with a doomsday theme. (Light spoilers for the book follow.)ĭalcher first created this dystopian setting in shorter pieces of fiction of 7 words. ![]() What if women's speech was limited to 100 words a day and kept track of by wrist counters? That's the world of Christina Dalcher's Vox. ![]()
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